The healthcare industry is more focused on the consumer than ever, triggering a call for true interoperability and open health data exchange through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Government regulation, consumer demand and innovative developers will make 2018 the Year of the API.

Senate Republicans have decided to not vote on their latest ObamaCare repeal legislation, signaling a collapse in their their last-ditch effort to kill off President Obama's signature law. "It would appear not," Sen. Pat Roberts(R-KS) told reporters when asked about the...

Prescriptions for commercially insured patients from the ED were 44% less likely to exceed a three-day supply than those written elsewhere. Those patients were also 38% less likely to exceed a daily dose of 50 milligrams of morphine equivalent.